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Only a Caged Bird!

WHEN Madame Guyon was imprisoned in the

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"A little bird I am, shut from the fields of air; And in my song I sing to Him who placed me there; Well pleased a prisoner to be,

Because, my God, it pleaseth Thee."

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The Stuff That Counts

HE test of a man is the fight he makes,

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The grit that he daily shows;

The way he stands on his feet and takes

Fate's numerous bumps and blows,

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-The Three Partners.

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OTHING reveals

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